They have imposed strict voter-ID requirements, knowing that millions of people cannot easily meet them; eliminated early voting periods; and restricted registration drives.
In 1911, the French society restricted registration to horses with both parents already registered with the society.
Other experts have suggested a restricted registration system that would allow certain child-centered employers — like camps and schools — to access high-risk juveniles' records for several years to help ensure that those adolescents and young adults don't work with children.
Shanghai has restricted registrations for many years to prevent its ancient streets from becoming overwhelmed.
All across the country, states like Florida, Texas, Ohio and Wisconsin have either passed restrictive laws or are engaging in suppressive tactics like restricting registration, cutting early voting and purging eligible voters.
Republicans are also busily passing laws which restrict registration efforts, restrict early voting, restrict poll locations, and restrict ballot-box access in many other ways.
The attorney, Marc Elias, is involved in lawsuits challenging measures passed in Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin, arguing that laws cutting back early voting, restricting registration and requiring photo identification to vote, among other measures, disproportionately impact racial minorities.
The incidents might have been overlooked if not for the GOP's clamorous campaign to restrict registration drives, purge voter rolls, roll back early voting, and pass voter ID laws that opponents point out have the effect of depressing the vote among minorities, the poor and other generally Democratic constituencies.
The General Stud Book rules for registration were also amended in 1909 to restrict registration to horses whose ancestry entirely traced to horses already registered in the General Stud Book, but horses registered in other national stud books were still allowed to be imported and registered.
This will restrict registrations to just 240,000 additional vehicles in 2011, a third of the current annual level.
So here's what we need: a Yammer-like service that allows for easy signups (rather than use domains to restrict registrations, it could simply require approval from the family's account admin).
